C O N T E N T S
Foreward
- David Eggleton
Introduction
- Doug Poole
Cover Artist
- Penny Howard
Poets
Four Kumara - Robert Sullivan
Song of the Sow, Shark, Orangutan and Seepweed - Siobhan Harvey
46 - Mark Pirie
On Reading Small Holes In The Silence - Mark Pirie
Jasmine - Mark Pirie
Lady Day - Serie Barford
My Common Garden - Anne Kennedy
The Phone Rang - Jack Ross
Chemwash - Jack Ross
Southampton - Jack Ross
Islanded Here - Emma Neale
Dusk Walk - Emma Neale
Ancestral - Emma Neale
Miles Showed Me His Trumpet - Larry Jaffe
Steel Toed Butterfly - Larry Jaffe
Bad Omens - Kim Meredith
A Brightening - Brian Flaherty
Galle, Sri Lanka - Brian Flaherty
Crows - Mina Dhastgieb
Sometimes, without you - Mina Dhastgieb
My Passenger - Jackson
A Dog is not a Child - David Stavanger
surely this is a fevered imagining - Jennifer Compton
Some of the First Footage - Jennifer Compton
belly of the beast - Ox Matiu
The Anti-smacking Law Was Passed in 2007 and I Was Born in 1997 - O
x Matiu
Finding Our Way - Doug Poole
O le Pese So'ogofai - Doug Poole
I am Ugly - Gina Nguyen
After Your Migrant Childhood, Femmy Beasts Still Railing - Vana Manasiádis
ēnei pīwakawaka - Vaughan Rapatahana
kāore ahau e mōhio - Vaughan Rapatahana
Ariadne Remembers - Charmaine Thomson
Heavy Blue Veins: Watts 1959 - Luis J. Rodriguez
Ritual - Wes Lee
Predawn Thing - Wes Lee
Home - Wes Lee
Poem Poem - Thomas Coffey
Sapa Sui -Lisa Stanley
When Hana Schmidt said Samoans in New Zealand need to be majorly humbled - Lisa Stanley
2025, June - Alastair Clarke
Chess Peace - Anne Hill
Lamb in the Picture - Anne Hill
Site of the Future - Iain Britton
Beware the Sacred South - Leilani Tamu
Keepsakes (Old times) Lee Thomson
Death is Life - Mepa Taufa-Vuni
Life is Death - Mepa Taufa-Vuni
The Fall of Mathematics - Mepa Taufa-Vuni
Amphisbaena - Richard Taylor
Charm - Angela Trolove
Players - Angela Trolove
Defusing the Muse - Jeremy Roberts
Dinner Train - Courtney Sina Meredith
Afternoons - Alex Jeune
An Encounter - Margaret Jeune
Zamana - Bajeet Singh Benam
Goodbye Kukutauaki Road - Janet Newman
Mrs Stuart - Ruth Arnison
Snow Day at Olveston Gallery - Ruth Arnison
Dilemma - Mary Cresswell
Bluffing the Oyster Molesters - Mary Cresswell
Last Requests - Alana Palleson
Saturday Was Bread Day - Michelle Elvy
Muse - Suzanne Herschell
The Zealot - David Eggleton
Ouroboros - David Eggleton
Last Days - David Eggleton
Published August 2026 - blackmail press
Celebrating 25 years online
Waitī - Penny Howard 2026
